Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
BETTE MIDLERPeople have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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